Aamaj: This former member of Iran’s parliament wrote today on his “X” page that the Taliban “destroyed” Afghanistan. “Taliban treats girls worse than in the pre-Islamic period. They shut down universities and the Persian language, and now they are insulting Shiites like this. What weakness do we have?”, he added. According to him, what else
Aamaj: Mohammad Zahir Aghbar, the Afghanistan Ambassador to Tajikistan, has condemned the Taliban’s Deputy Minister of Information and Culture for his recent statement dismissing the importance of the Persian language. Aghbar called this statement a clear display of ignorance and narrow-mindedness. During a visit to Bamyan, Mohammad Younus Rashed, the Taliban’s Deputy Minister of Information
8am: Since the Taliban’s return, all official signs that had the Persian term for university written on them have been replaced with Pashtu terms. The presence of the Farsi in Taliban circles and media has decreased, and Taliban officials usually speak Pashto in public events. Administrative communication is usually conducted in Pashto. Tribal biases have
Khaama: Afghanistan’s Ministry of Higher Education in a letter has warned university lecturers to avoid criticizing the Taliban regime in their research work, sources reported. In the letter, it is stressed that university lecturers should have a good command of both national languages (Farsi and Pashto) and utilize national terminologies rather than using terms that
8am: In continuation of the Taliban’s recent anti-Persian initiatives, the group has removed the word “Danishgah = University” from the Signboard of Herat University in Herat province. On Wednesday, September 28, local sources talking to Hasht-e Subh said that the Taliban group has installed a new signboard with the Pashtu version of “Herat Pohantoon =
8am: In the past few months, the Taliban have continued to remove Farsi/Persian words and terminologies from the boards of government institutions, and have also changed the boards of the appeal courts of Ghor and Bamyan provinces. This is even though the absolute majority of the residents of these two provinces speak Farsi/Persian. At that
8am: Sources on Tuesday, September 20, speaking to Hasht-e Subh said that in a new move, the Taliban group removed the Persian signs of the departments of management, publications, information technology, procurement management, and several other departments and replaced them with Pashto and English signs. This is while 90% of the visitors to government offices
8am: Professors at private universities in Kabul say that the Taliban has tripled the number of credits for the Saqafat-e-Islami (Islamic Culture) by issuing letters to non-profit universities, forcing private-owned institutions to remove Dari literature from their curriculum and replace it with Saqafat-e-Islami. According to them, teachers and professors of Dari – or Persian –